1.0 link 228770 <![CDATA[King Shifts Explanation For Opposing Slavery Resolution: It's Not Balanced]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/09/king-shifts-explanation-f_n_228770.html Generally, a politician is headed for trouble when he starts a thought on local radio by saying, "Slavery was abhorrent, but..."

Most politicians have figured out that nothing that comes after that "but" belongs anywhere near the first part of the sentence. Not Rep. Steve King.

King, an Iowa Republican, was the lone member of the House to oppose a resolution to acknowledge the role of slave labor in the construction of the Capitol with a plaque in the Capitol Visitors...

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